Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-02-10
State New S.

The RocklaHd CoHrier-GG-ette claims
that the schooner Polly OF Owls Head l.
the oldest coaster atoat. According 10
her papers and the records OF the New
buryport custom house She was built in
Ame>hury. Mass. in l>o4
Mayor Wakefield of Bath announces
that he is not a candidate for reelection
Il lire broke out in the Canton House
Canton Village. the 18th ult.. and spread
80 rapidly and with such great force that
the whole village was threatened with de
struction. Help had to be summoned from
Lewiston before the fire could be con
trolled. Four buildings were burned.
Mrs Sophie l.. Webb of Newcastle.
Maine the mother of Rev. +. Is. Webb, ID.
D.. of Boston. died the 27th ult., at the
age of 90
Fire was discovered in Houlton Fri
day evening the 2sth ult., about O'Clock
in the three story building owned by the
Stevens estate 1t caused about Sl2 900
worth Of damage before it could be extin
guished. The principal losers are Jack
ns x Barker. boots and shoes, 5000; c.
T.. Weber. boots and shoes and millinery,
$1,000: loss on building, $1,000; Z. a.
Mansfield. boots and shoes. $500: losses Of
tenants ABOUT Sl.pb. mere l. >iiidl! III
surance.
The January term of the supreme
court at Saco Judge Foster presiding, adj
journed Saturday morning, the 29th ult-
Though few cases were tried. the term has
been busy one. 100 entries having been
| disposed of. The session occupied %
working days.
Mrs. Anna Dearborn Evans, widow of
the late Hon. George Evans, died the Both
uIt, in Augusta at the advanced age of 90
years.
The steam mill at Vanceboro owned
by the Wooden Ware company was burned
Saturday night the 29th ult. Loss S40.-
900. One hundred men are thrown out of
employment.
John O. Getchen, of Gloucester, mas
ter of the Gloucester schooner Winnie NJ.
Getchell who has been visiting at Liver
more Falls. has in his possession queer
shaped knife of peculiar pattern, which
| he found embedded in the side of 40
| pound Goldfish caught off the banks of
| Georgia. 1t is supposed that the fish
swallowed the knife and it having a sharp
! handle worked into the fish and became
! fixed there. Captain Getchell says it was
by mere chance that he found it. He had
| turned the fish over some seven or eight
times before noticing anything peculiar
| about it, but while exhibiting ii to some
| bystanders he accidentally perceived a
| bunch. He has had the fish photographed
and sent to the Smithsonian Institute at
| Washington.
-Pire at the lower village in Fort Fair
field, "Wednesday morning. destroyed a
large building owned by Baker Robbins.
Loss on the building 81 600. The contents
were owned by Robbins, who alone loses
81 900 The fire also destroyed small
store owned by Baker and the Dorsey
building owned by Kinney Brothers, An
dover, n. b. The loss on the Dorsey
| building amounts to about $1,000.
Daniel Donovan alias 1.-THE cobbler of
BiddefOrd," against whom there are three
indictments, attempted to escape from the
Saco Jail Sunday night of last week. He
had sawed off two iron bars when he was
detected. He has been in other prisons
aAd once jumped from moving train to
escape from an officer.